On the other hand, when the Laikipiak were defeated by the Purko Maasai in an inter-clan feud around 1870 most of them fled to Kikuyu homes around Nyeri because they had relatives there.

When a person died at the homestead (enkang’) the Maasai would vacate that house (enkaji) and move to another one. They would pay a man who had no family known in Maa as Olkirikoi to remove the ...